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  Keyboard Shortcuts For Switching Tools in QuarkXPress 8 & 9

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  DesignMerge: Powerful Data Merging in QuarkXPress

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• Free New Features for QuarkXPress 8!

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• How to Save a QuarkXPress Project Down to a Previous Version

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• How to Edit One Item in a Group

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• How to quickly switch to any InDesign tool while editing text

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  Customize the Tools Palette!

  13648 readersIn QuarkXPress 8 and 9, the Tools palette clusters items more logically (such as the Text Box linking tools with the Text box tool): To move a tool out from under other tools and give it its own place in the Tools palette, just hold down the Control key and then click-and-hold on any tool. When